Some people hate Trubbish, those people are wrong and foolish. T.R.A.S.H is an organisation set up to protect and adore the adorable pocket monsters like they deserve! A Trubbish is for life, not just the Pokédex.

Kururin was a great game, it never really took off big time though and realistically it was never likely too. America didn't even get any of the series as it was thought it would appear too childish for the market with it's cute and colourful visuals, here in Europe we only got the first GBA entry.

But it's not forgotten, Smash Bros still pay homage (as it does to everything Nintendo) in the form of an assist trophy of Kururin's mode of transport Helirin. Yup it's not just a weird stick and ball this little feller is flying it!

I still hope for a Kururin return on the 3DS, I think it could look pretty snazzy in stereoscopic 3D and would be a perfect fit on the eShop next to Mallo's adventures. Here's hoping! Kururin would also be a top choice for me in the next Smash Bros, I'm not 100% sure how he's fight just yet (I imagine he'd be quite aerial combo heavy, being a bird and all, and limited to close range attacks) but I think he'd be pretty cool and could summon Helirin as a Smash Attack.

Off topic there... Kururin, you were one of my favourite GBA titles, I salute you sir with this tribute art!

This is not real (obviously), but with Sony bringing out All Stars recently and Nintendo having it's own Smash Bros both celebrating many iconic gaming characters I thought it would be great to see something similar that celebrates the indie scene. I mocked this up in photoshop in an hour, any characters you'd add?

It's an image link for an article about Nintendo, our thoughts after E3. You'll notice it's about 80% Mario, with a few Zelda's and other bits dotted about, this bugs me no end. It's like even IGN, who rate and review all their games, don't acknowledge Nintendo's rich library. So I decided to do my own, it's far from perfect it was a bit of a rush job, but these are all exclusive Nintendo published and created titles (to my best knowledge). So IGN, if you're reading this, please feel free to use it next time you need a generic Nintendo mash-up image.

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I've tried to keep it to one character per franchise, the exception being Link as I know there's a divide over Toon Link and 'realistic' Link. Plus the Pikmin and Diddy riding DK.

I had to leave several out, Electroplankton, Star Tropics, 1080, Waverace, Eternal Darkness, Ice Climbers, Wrecking Crew etc, so my apologies if you're favourite isn't in there! As I said, a rush job, but I hope Nintendo fans will get a kick out of it